Reminder: The lifespan of CD-Rs was greatly overestimated back in their day and a lot of first-gen ones are already rotting and degrading away as the organic dye breaks down. Backup those precious beta discs!

PS2 graphics always just punch me in the liver with nostalgia...

I just love how Crash bobs up and down endlessly whenever he's in the Jeep.

This is rather interesting, I remember seeing screenshots of Crash in this jeep in a Ps2 magazine waaaaaaay back in 2001.

Getting hyped up for that new logo.

This version of the hub made it into the manual! In the section where it tells you about the hub system, there's an image that shows this version of the warp room barrier, as well as the gap in the center (which is actually the secret warp room platform in the final version). I was always wondering about this for too many years! Do you have any early builds of Crash 'n' Burn? I know for a fact that despite the amount of research people have done on it, most would still love to see how it truly looked in its early incarnations. Also, make a video about Finding Nemo! I'm sure there'll be some great behind the scenes stuff in there.

Well, the title screen is 10 times better than the final one, at least it's not ripping of completely the Crash Bandicoot 3 one. Anyway, this is very interesting, Wrath of Cortex is one of my favorite Crash Bandicoot games.

You are awesome. Your video games have been apart of my childhood. Growing up, I always was curious about the development for those games. It really makes my day to learn some behind the scene stuff from you!

I'd love to hear more about the storyline of this game. Some people theorised about a proper plot explaining why each level had to be visited, but that it was cut for time constraints. Thanks for your hard work!!

I'd love to see an even earlier build from back when the game was totally different. With that cool new logo you and Rodney Matthews should team up and make Game Hut Studios.

Jon you really need to do a longplay of this. Maybe a livestream similarly to that Madagascar build? Also, the lightning rods, platform in the middle and other graphics in the hub are missing and the gates are missing the particle effects seen in the final. I should mention offtopically that the lighting rods mentioned before are actually missing their particles in the Xbox and GameCube versions.

Would it be possible to do a full let's play of this beta? As this version seems nearly complete, and the fans could also help compare the differences.

As someone who didn't hate this game as much as most this was such a cool watch! I would totally welcome more if you find some!

I appreciate your effort, Jon! Keep up the great work!

Wow, this is super interesting! Great find, Jon! There are some minor differences in the warp room, like Coco facing towards the camera and not really doing anything. In the final build she's on a laptop, facing away. The middle section is also a platform that leads to the secret levels, etc. Looking at one of my early magazines, there are screenshots of some oddities which I wonder if they're from this build or not. I'm eager to see Crash N Burn (level 21), as one screenshot shows an entire vertical section that isn't in the final game, one with a big blue enemy in that level, as well as an odd camera angle near the level's crystal. In the same mag, Crash appears in his mech in Compactor Reactor (level 5) when it doesn't feature there in the final game. I see other screenshots with minor things missing, like particle/heat effects for Fahrenheit Frenzy or a different placement of an enemy, but I guess Compactor Reactor and Crash N Burn particularly interest me from this beta build.

Do more about this game! This one was underrated IMO

"DE WRAAK VAN CORTEX"

It’s amazing to get your insights and perspectives on this. Thanks for taking the time. My son still plays Finding Nemo for the GC every now and then when he gets an itch for it and it’s taken on a new meaning for me to watch him knowing the work you put into these titles.

Finally something Crash related! Is there gonna be another one on Twinsanity?

who could forget my favorite crash level *game over*

The texture stopping you from entering boss levels before completing all the other levels is different.

Love these behind the scenes videos. Actually working on a Wrath of Cortex video at the minute as practice for a module in my game design degree. And as a game design student I must say these videos are really fascinating. Here's hoping for more hidden prototype gems.

I knew exactly what the dome model was being used for. And also i never knew what that green blob item was being used for, cause it's still loaded in the level. Turns out to be a projectile :oooo Wrathgasm

The wrath of cortex on Game cube was my childhood and an amazing game.

I love your channel! Prototypes, development information, coding. You are the man!

I would be interested in a documentary style video. Like a 20 minute video where you walk us trough how ps2 games or modern games are made at travelers tales or tt games.

Despite everything, TWoC was a pretty decent game with amazing soundtrack and levels. I've really enjoyed it! Thank you for all of your Games and Videos!

Thank you very much Jon. Crash TWoC was met with reverence when I got it as a Platinum title from the local Morrisons. Always nice to see a little BtS!

I was wondering when you'd do something relating to Wrath Of Cortex, I love that game.

Well. This is so great, I have no more words!

This inspired me to run into my office and pull out the walk through book for CBTWOC, wish I still had my copy of the game from my childhood, but I can reminisce via the book. Drain damage was the hardest boss fight in that game for me back then. Anyways I never really paid attention to the QnA section in the back of the book before now, kinda impressive it only took slightly over a year to develop the game. Also the fact that you guys wanted to make it an adventure roaming style game then, but didnt have the time. Which obviously the idea moved on to become twinsanity.

the earliest memory I have of receiving a video game as a christmas gift was this game. it's cool to see some behind the scenes of it. I should go back and finish it, I don't think I ever did.

More Twinsanity please!

Cool! I'd love to see if there are any earlier builds from when the game was aiming to be semi-free roaming.

I'd love to see more Crash related content. Wrath of Cortex was the first Crash game my parents bought me, and it was the first PS2 game I ever played.

When you were going through the level select menu there was a level under the bonus list just titled 'Game Over' and I think it'd be cool to see what that is! Even if it's just the one room in the game over screen it'd still be cool to see crash running around in there

i will never forgive you for those underwater levels (not the sub ones)

Still so amazed how much changed 🌹

I Can Watch This All Day !

The music in Crashes to Ashes is one of my favorite songs from The Wrath Of Cortex.

This is the first video of yours I’ve ever seen, and you’ve got a very nice voice.

a prototype l never expected from this game really cool!

Tell us about Cortex Chaos! Do you have any prototypes or information about the game?

Can you play the version of "Crash and Burn" included on this disc?

ahhhh i loooooved this game soo much as a kid

I seriously love your videos. They are an inspiration for me!! I know this is not video related but you should check out Dofus!

Would you happen to still have an E3 build laying around? I know the E3 warp room is present in the final game's files, but it'll be interesting to see that warp room as it was meant to be

With all the vehicular stuff I'm surprised this didn't go through. An interesting concept for sure.

This is great! Thank you for showing this! It's nice to see that the jeep was used in other levels. There is supposed to be another level where the jeep was used, Compactor Reactor from the 1st Warp Room but it was cut. I don't suppose you would have that deleted section in that CD?

My Favorite Crash Game Of All Time! :) Love It On PS2. Btw Nice Video!

So cool!!!! Thanks Jon

Hmm... inly played this game a bit before it got scratched, but this indeed looks much different!

Does anyone remember how in the all the wild west levels, some of the boards on the buildings had the Dingbat font on them?

The HUB area doesn't have the little pad area that sends you towards the bonus areas of the game, The Load/Save Screen is extremely still, unlike how the original final release had those sparkle effects moving around as you were either loading your save, or not loading. The Menu doesn't have the space-esque theme, and is located in Coco's lab, something we do not see in the final game at all, Well at least in game, It is mentioned during the intro when all three heroes go into the warp room at the start of the game. Overall, you can only get the Debug in the Xbox Version of the game through hacking the files, as seen by one of Beta M's videos of him screwing around with the items, Don't recall the title of the video, But I DO know he was screwing around with crates in one of the roller ball levels. Overall, Interesting.

Played this game a ton as a kid. Maybe I should go back to replay it. Had great music.

I love this game. Please back up your prototype disks to hardrives so you don't loose that historic content.

Would love to see more differences from the beta of this game!

I saw a video once claiming that there was a loading screen minigame in the review copy of this game that was cut last minute. Any info on this? Would have made the long load times a bit more tolerable haha.

It would've been really cool to battle Crunch in the Jeep like that. Crash Tag Team Racing has a similar Jeep vehicle for Crash called the Trikee.

Loved this game during my childhood

+GameHut HOOOOOLY SHIT. This is big. Do you remember if you guys built an iteration that was based on Mark Cerny's mock-up prototype? (The open-world idea having to do with the volcano island) Also, would you ever consider releasing footage of Twinsanity beta? A bunch of material was left out of the final product, so I'm just interested to see how it looked previously.

So I'm guessing the loading screen for this version doesn't have that scrapped minigame.

A video on how the collision detection worked in Crash would be cool :)

come-on Reggie give us twinsanity

MORE CRASH, PLEEEASE!

You should make a iso rom of this beta crash twoc game.

That rock creature look cool, I like it a lot.

This game was my childhood

Even though it's a prototype it's still more well made than twinsanity

I always loved the song in this boss

will the ISOs to this and other games you’ve covered be released to the public?

Hey who was the sadist that put like one checkpoint in Coral Canyon

Your work on Sonic R so impressed a PlayStation owning friend of mine, he was swayed to try Rascal on PSOne. Do you have betas to show from Rascal too at all, I wonder?

I think Coco might be standing in a slightly different spot or animation pose in the Warp Room. Not certain though. Also the bonus platform’s missing and there’s a hole in the floor.

hello game Hut! Can you bring deleted level videos gone a bit coco?

Very interesting. I noticed the tire threads are placed in a opposite direction. This is a mistake lots of developers do even today.

If you've noticed at 1:12, the relic time for Arctic Antics in this beta version is 1:00:00 compared to 1:15:00 in the final version!

Ah, my childhood

would you ever consider collaborating with hidden palace and getting these beta builds documented and preserved as part of gaming history?

Wonderful 😎

I'd love to sit down for a coffee or pint with you and talk game development one day. :)

Does this build have the original version of Ice Station Bandicoot?

I honestly didn’t know that Crunch was supposed to be double his size in Crashes to Ashes. Nor did I know that the Jeep was going to be used in that boss level.

Shouldn’t the save/load screen have a static animation? Also, no bonus platform, bur there is a hole for one. Not sure if the floor textures are final ether but they don’t look as I remember them.

I think you should upload the iso on archive soon

Could the jeep have just been intended as a placeholder before the mech was finished?

In the final version of the game Coco didn't just stand around and flip her hair. She had her computer. I noticed this right away btw 😂

Why was Crash's animation of jumping into the water cut? In fact, why was a lot of interesting content cut? Finally, do any of the prototypes have a vastly different or unused version of the volcano level that can be seen in commercials?

Please make Back ups of all the discs !

Also, could you show off the loading times that you said in the Madagascar stream had the loading mini game you had to take out last minute? If it's in there I mean

Hey Jon, did you know that someone made this super awesome mod of the level The Gauntlet from this game? It even uses unused assets from the game. If you'd like, I can post a link for you so you can have a look at it.

I like this, but I would like to see more prototype videos of Crash Twinsanity.

Imagine level "Crashes To Ashes" would crash

I played through this game for the first time very recently actually. To be honest I found this level a little irritating at the time as I was expecting to have to chase the boss all the way back before attacking him only to run into hazards along the way. It took me a while to realise that you could actually attack him quite early and not really have to put yourself in a lot of danger at all. I guess I didn't want to waste time trying to attack him early as it would prevent me from moving so I just rolled with it until I ballsed it up, usually in the final phase. In a way it's reassuring to see that it seems to have gone through major changes late in development because it did stand out as weak point for me, something about it just didn't click with me at all. Did anyone else have problems with this one and is the intention to follow him all the way back before attacking?

I would suggest you do some fresh backups of these disks, as you might start to get some disk root soon.

Yes my favourite Crash Bandicoot game

Could you upload all the Bates you have somewhere

great music

Can you please do more of this proto type?

jon, theres this project that's been in development since 2006 called project axsx, which is supposed to basically revive sonic x-treme from the dead. do you think you could/would you have any interest in helping the creator, Andrew with the project, or are you busy with something? I personally think sonic x-treme was going to be the best 3d sonic platformer, and this project has had my attention for quite awhile. it would be cool if you lent the creator a hand. :.)